That rain smell, I remember being happy when my mom allowed me to play in the rain.
Nils
joined 2 years ago
Thanks, great read.
Here we are still having problems to get the referendum going. Because the major parties were alternating for a while, so they always vote against it. It will be difficult to screw them both with disproportionate seats. This recent election, benefited them both.
Is this really your experience with +16 years old? If so, you should get your province to invest more in education.
They(16yo) can drive, they can enlist.
In most provinces, they are choosing their career, trade, university, and with fresh knowledge of history and geopolitics they get from schools.
And there is no magical switch that flips when you turn 18. The sooner they start thinking about their future, the better.
Many countries already allowed 16 years old people to vote, for more than 20 years, and they did not become a misogynist hell-hole.
local candidate
I used to think like that, until I realized that I never met the past 3 representatives from my riding. They sent representatives to knock on my door during the campaign saying yes to any issue I brought up, they never hold town halls, and only returned generic messages when we tried to contact them - when they answer.
The person elected this time does not live in my riding.
All of them voted with the party, and never proposed anything useful.
That was one of the questions I had for the candidates knocking this time, would you vote against the party if their decision would harm "us"(the riding)?
Today, I rather vote for anyone (or party/independent list) in Canada that would relate to my expectations. I do not care where they live, only that they do a good job.
- Wash your face or any area you want to shave with gentle soap.
- Use a gentle shaving cream, no scent, no alcohol. If possible, spread it with a shaving brush gently.
- Shave in the direction of the hair, e.g. your moustache you probably go from nose to lips.
a. Change your blades often, with a safety razor you most likely want a new blade after each shave. Blades get dull, pull the hair and clog the pores, they will accumulate bacteria over time, causing infections, disposing them after each shave will reduce the chances of those happening.
b. Try to get good at passing the blade only once, avoid repeating on the same spots multiple times. If struggling, you might want to consider one of those razors that adjust to your face as you move, or an electric trimmer - avoid the ones that pull the hair before cutting. - Wash your face again, if possible, use a soap with ceramides and niacinamide (they will help with your skin recovery).
- Tap your face gently with a clean towel, do not rub it, don't go hard. Leave some moisture.
- Use moisturizer (ceramides and niacinamide is a plus)
- SPF
A lot of the things that happen to your skin can be caused by bacteria, clogged pores by dead skin, dirty, hair, fabric... Those steps will help you minimize the chances and help your skin recover faster after shaving.
If possible, you should visit a dermatologist for a deeper understanding of your skin, and the care you need.
Also, on a special occasion, treat yourself to one of those old school barbers, with hot/cold towels and all the pampers.
Not sure in your riding, but usually, they have different roles and experience level.
One important task is to keep everyone in check. If you reduce that number, the risks of different problems increases. Most recently this
There is a lot of propaganda around the world to discredit elections (usually by authoritarian regimes), so I do not think anyone will take the risk of reducing the number of poll workers.
Elections Canada describes all the roles and processes, from hiring, training, what to do before, during and after the voting day if you are interested in details. https://www.elections.ca/home.aspx
Sadly, we are a bit behind in technology and the costs can persist with electronic voting.
With in-person voting, either we do like Belgium with printing votes (I read people calling it "expensive pen"), or with air-gapped dedicated computers like in South America (the only thing that leaves is one of the storages and a printed sheet with the result of that location). There are the initial investment and we will still need the election workers.
On the other hand, with internet/remote voting, the initial investment in tech, security, and change management will be huge in our current state. You can reduce the numbers of workers with that, but now you will need more expensive people at every step to ensure a fair election.
Countries that uses any kind of electronic voting claim that it improved their elections considerably, including costs, but the upfront cost and the change in culture can scary some people.
(edit: fix typo)
About the electronic vote, I found this when I was trying to find the source code of some of those voting machines.
It is a Brazillian explaining in english the process of voting.
https://rl.bloat.cat/r/linux/comments/jth7tj/voting_machines_in_brazil_use_linux_uenux_and/gc7yqic
u/Marcos-Am Nov 14 '20
Some things for the parrots that are only able to repeat what Tom Scott said in his videos.
First, all the voting happens on a 10-hour period. Normally 8 hours but this year will be extended due to Covid.
On our election there is no easy way to do it. We vote on the public schools and each machine is on a separate classroom, about 20 machines per school where I live, each school is about a km of one another, these machines have their own battery and are not hooked to each other. Each one of those machines have a table with a number of rows equal that of all people that are expected to vote in that classroom, each vote is then written in a random row so you cannot trace it back to a vote order. Hacking machines singular machines is possible, but to make significant difference on the voting day you would need to focus on the biggest electoral colleges, in hundreds of schools in a limited period. After the election closes 17 PM GMT -3, all the voting machines have their "memory card" transported to the local electoral tribunal where they are transmitted through and intranet wired to the Superior Electoral Tribunal on Brasilia to count, as far I could understand they count locally as well to double check.
Now, the easiest place to rig votes in bulk is on the electoral tribunals, were you get a lot of party people and police monitoring the count.
Also, I believe no votes are accepted before the end of the voting period, but other person will need to attest this information, maybe you rataktaktaruken.
While all the steps of the voting process have visible insecurities, the scale of the election, the timeframe in which it occurs, and the compartmentalization of incoming votes bring higher reliability to the process.
This information's can be found here and here part of it was from personal experience as well.
(There are plenty of videos around showing how to vote, how the machine works, the "hackaton" that happens before every election to crack the machines, ...)
It seems that this is a regular election in Belgium
https://www.democraticaudit.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/euro-ballot-paper-belgium.jpg
The news might be best, I am not sure if they keep their database updated. I was checking some studios websites, and they seem very dated, some do not offer HTTPS.
From what I read, it appears that the problem is:
imagine how many more people would vote if you could just open your phone and do it”
It seems that a lot of decisions in Canada about voting, who can vote, where they can vote, riding size and shape, ... are to get the right outcome from elections.
Maybe after PR passes those will change, but who knows.
There are a few .world doing that non ironically. In .ca they always create their own communities. And they usually stay around unless they break the instance rules too many times.
As far as I know, they only get downvotes, nothing more.